Networking Events

Past Networking Events

Marketing and Communication Director's Dinner

17th March, 2008
Home House, London

The inaugural Walpole Luxury Dinner for Marketing and Communications Directors was held on Monday 17th March, at Home House. Attended by over 70 British Luxury Marketers, the event was held to facilitate Networking and information sharing across the luxury industry.

Guests were treated to an entertaining speech by Luke Johnson, Chairman of Channel 4 Television and Risk Capital Partners, who gave an amusing insight to the pitfalls and triumphs of running a successful business.

Arts & Business and Ledbury Research Breakfast

31 October 2007
National Portrait Gallery

Walpole Friends, Arts & Business hosted a very special Meet the Members event at The National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday 31 October.

The breakfast marked the launch of Arts & Business' latest research, conducted by Ledbury Research, exploring the ways in which luxury brands and cultural organisations work together. The presentation included highlights of the research presented by Marc Cohen of Ledbury Research and a case study discussion with the National Portrait Gallery and Krug.

Walpole Meet The Members Event With Boodles

12 July 2007
New Bond Street Store, London

The second "Meet the Members" event took place with Boodles to launch the opening of their New Bond Street Store. The store, designed by Eva Jiricna, has a wonderful new, contemporary space in which to house all the collections from Boodles.

Chief Executive's Dinner

13 February 2007
The Lanesborough, London

Over 70 members attended the annual member chief executives' dinner, held at The Lanesborough. John Micklethwait, Editor of The Economist spoke on the issues surrounding globalisation.

Member Networking Evening

21 September 2006
Davenport Lyons, London

The evening has been built around the desire for members to meet and network with other member brands on a more formal basis. There will be facilitators on hand on the evening to help make introductions.

Networking Event at Home House

14 March 2006
Home House, London

Introducing the UK’s first luxury consumer panel; Walpole and BLM Red collaborated to construct a panel of 3,919 active buyers of luxury spanning nine product categories.

Networking Evening And McKinsey Presentation On - The Luxury Consumer

23 March 2005

Over 100 people, representing 40 member companies attended the networking evening at Home House. The evening began with a presentation by Johanna Waterous and Demetra Pinsent of McKinsey & Company of the results of their ‘Luxury Customer’ survey This was followed by an opportunity for members to network It was a lively and productive event and the feedback from the members has been excellent, surpassing many of their expectations.

Our thanks go to Piers Lawson of event organisers In Any Event who helped with the organisation of this event, Home House for hosting us, McKinsey for sharing with us the presentation and our facilitators John Chadwick Jones of Wordwide, Dominic McCarthy, Neville McCarthy Associates and Peter Sage of CTS Internet Development for giving up their free time.